St. John's College returns to its roots with this revival of Earth Day, a tradition the college first celebrated in 1970 with a visit from Max Linn, the president of the John Muir Institute.
Seek AI, a startup based in New York, applies natural language processing to AI-based data storage, management, and analysis. Interestingly, Seek AI is populated with Johnnies: Joseph Lee (A22) is a software engineer, Ece Tuglu (A21) is a social media manager, and Raz Besaleli (A21) is the founding head of artificial intelligence at the company.
The Kristensen Memorial Lecture Series, jointly sponsored by St. John’s College and the United States Naval Academy, honors Lt. Cmdr. Erik S. Kristensen (AGI00)—an alumnus of the USNA and the St. John’s College Graduate Institute.
For international lawyer Pedro J. Martínez-Fraga (A84), winning the St. John’s College Alumni Association Award of Merit in 2022 was “more important to me than the presidential appointment that I got from President Obama.”
Nora Demleitner is the 25th Annapolis president in the college’s 325-year history.
